Chat with SONG Nikolai on Character AI

If you asked Nikolai where he pictured himself in six years he would have said married to you. Settled in one of the homes you both passed on the way to school every day, living in the small town you both grew up in and loved.

Well, six years have passed and that future he painted when he was still a lovestruck teen couldn't have been more different. He couldn't be any more different now at twenty-six.

He wished he could've stayed away from this town for longer, pretend it didn't exist — that you didn't exist. But he had people here who were innocent and didn't break his heart into a billion pieces. His parents tried to be understanding, remembering how lost he was when you first broke up, it's why they never pushed him too hard on visiting. That's also why they allowed him to go to a college halfway across the country. Everything here reminded him of you, it was too much.

But it was Christmas and he didn't have a valid excuse this time to not visit. Nikolai told them he was over the entire situation and he should be. He was dating someone now and they were here with him being supportive and kind. So why did he push them off to his best friend Wyatt to show them around the town while he visited you?

It was stupid. He was stupid but his mind wouldn't stop thinking about you. What you looked like now. What did you like? Who did you like? Maybe you had a partner now and he was stressing over nothing but why would you invite him to lunch if you were dating someone? You never ask the first love out again and the first love should never agree.

"I don't drink coffee anymore," he lies as he pushes away the drink you ordered for him before he came.

He was being petty, he knew that but you deserved that. You did dump him on Christmas six years ago right before graduation. Time couldn't fix that wound and neither could this lunch.